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Empowering local people to build a strong
and cohesive community

HEALTH

We are based in an area of deprivation where people experience high levels of inequality from housing and accessing green spaces to education and job opportunities, these all impact on people’s health and wellbeing.

Our work seeks to address factors we can influence directly and work with our partners to lobby for change through our strategic links in areas such as housing, external environments and access to services.

Our aim is to provide people with the knowledge, understanding and initiatives that enable them to make informed choices about their health and wellbeing. We work with people to support them in their choices focusing on positive, sustained behaviour changes. We establish provision that provides fun ways of getting and staying healthy and improving people’s wellbeing.

4 Life – Reducing the prevalence of obesity (BMI) in adults & children: 4 Life provides evidence based health improvement interventions across Bradford East to adults/children. Our strong relationships across our diverse communities and our delivery model of working in community settings, schools and people’s homes makes it easy to access and responsive to the needs and issues many people face. 4 Life delivers a wide range of activities:

Free physical exercise classes – Aerobics/ EXTEND/ walking groups

Cook and Eats – for adults and children

Healthy Family – one of our workers work with families in their home to improve the health of every member

Healthy Weight Programmes

4 Life also provides information about, referrals and signposting into

Understand behaviour in its context and help people make appropriate behaviour changes

Work with people co-designing provision so everyone can be involved and what is done has the greatest impact

Help people plan their pathway to improved health by accessing all elements of 4 Life to sustain change

Monitor what we do so we can understand what works and what doesn’t

Provide our commissioner with evidence of the measurable health improvements people make

All our work is sensitive to the specific cultural, health or financial, background of our participants. Our model of co-designing effective interventions and our focus on simple behaviour changes makes becoming healthy a simple choice 4 Life.

Meet the Team

Poonam Joshi Project Coordinator

Poonam is the Project Coordinator of the 4 Life. Poonam has led 4 Life since its inception in 2008. She has a Level 3 qualification in nutrition and physical exercise. Poonam also has Level 4 BACPR and is able to provide physical activities for those recovering from heart conditions.Contact Poonam: 07827 3445573pjoshi@thornburycentre.com

Anna Hanke Health Lead Worker

Anna Handke has recently joined the 4 Life team but has worked at the Centre with our CEE communities for a number of years. She has a Level 3 qualification in nutrition. Anna has extensive experience of providing whole family and group interventions to improve the health of our diverse communities.Contact Anna: 07990 002514

Pam Knott Health Worker

Pam Knott has worked with 4 Life for a number of years. She brings strong links with our communities. She has a Level 3 qualification in nutrition and has also completed walk leader training. Pam brings strong links into and has established trusted relationships across our communities.Contact Pam: 07795 161 617pknott@thornburycentre.com

6 week programme helping children learn about healthy food choices and how to cook healthy meals

Facts & Figures

4 Life was re-commissioned by Bradford’s Public to maintain its work in BD3. With outstanding outcomes 4 Life continues to reduce levels of obesity and increase the physical activity levels of adults and children. Our delivery model and bespoke pathways maintains engagement for a year so real and lasting behaviour change can be achieved.

4 Life provides evidence based health improvement interventions. Through our existing relationships with local communities and by using settings people access e.g. schools, faith and community centres and people’s homes we ensure engagement with our marginalised and vulnerable community members. ‘4 Life’s menu’ means we can tailor the programme to the client:

Physical activities – Aerobics/ EXTEND/ walking groups

Cook and Eats – for adults and children

Healthy Weight Programmes

Bespoke family interventions delivered in the families home with the whole family

By adding signposting and referrals to other health improvement initiatives e.g. smoking cessation and to organisations to address wider social determinants we ensure a holistic service.Our ability to establish effective relationships with participants means we can:

Understand behaviour in its context and instigate appropriate behaviour changes

Work with participants co-designing aspects of provision increasing involvement and impact e.g. participants create their pathway accessing all elements to sustain change

Monitor understanding and key skills through reflective practice

Evidence measurable health improvement

Our bespoke Healthy Family Interventions work with the whole family, understanding their power dynamic, specific cultural, health or financial, issues. We then co-design effective interventions focusing on simple behaviour change.Some comments from our satisfied clients:

‘Attending these exercises classes have made me fitter and helped me get out of the house and help with my depression’

‘Really enjoy the class and have made friends’

‘As the weeks have gone on I feel I can keep up much more and try the harder exercise options’

‘Will be making my spaghetti with Quorn like today, might not tell the kids it isn’t meat and see if they can tell they are eating a healthier version!

Volunteer

Our projects provide many opportunities for volunteering
Volunteering offer opportunities for you to make a difference to your own life and the lives of others
If you are interested in anything you see please call us on: 01274 666649 and ask for information on how you could volunteer for one of our projects
What benefits can I expect from volunteering?Our volunteers tell us it has:

Contact

CONTACT US / FIND OUT MORE ABOUT 4 LIFE

The Thornbury Centre has partnered with ABL an organisation that delivers community healthcare programmes across the north of England and beyond. We share a passion to tackle health inequalities through innovative community healthcare.

ABL were successful in securing three years funding to deliver Bradford’s Tier 2 Weight Management Programmes that provide free nutrition and exercise classes for anyone over 18 with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25+. They also provide FAB – (food, activity, balance) sessions for children who fall between 91st -98th centile for their weight/height ratio.

We have created a special programme that works with families in their homes and is targeting particular communities – CEE/ Roma/ BME – who often find accessing provision difficult.

People not only access the comprehensive weight management 12 week programmes they are supported by our trained nutritionists for a year. This is to help people sustain behaviour changes so that a healthier lifestyle is maintained.

Meet the Team

Poonam Joshi Project Coordinator

Poonam is the Project Coordinator of ABL Bradford @ The Thornbury Centre. Poonam has a Level 3 qualification in nutrition and physical exercise. She also has Level 4 BACPR and is able to provide physical activities for those recovering from heart conditions. Poonam brings extensive experience of working with people to support them to make positive health improvements.Contact Poonam: 07827 3445573pjoshi@thornburycentre.com

Anna Hanke Health Lead Worker

Anna Handke has worked at the Centre with our CEE communities for a number of years. She has a Level 3 qualification in nutrition and has extensive experience of providing whole family and group interventions to improve the health and diet of our diverse CEE communities.Contact Anna: 07990 002514ahandke@thornburycentre.com

Get Involved

This service is an all-round package for adults and children who want to become healthier by changing their diet and lifestyle. The service provides information and support on how to change behaviours to improve health outcomes

Facts & Figures

As this is a new project we have no data on the impact of the provision. The information below provides the context in which this project is set.
According to Public Health Bradford the estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity amongst adults is 67.7%, which is above the national average of 63.8%.
Approximately 25.8% of these adults are obese, 1.6% above the national average.Just under a quarter (24.3%) of the population of Bradford district eat a healthy dietNearly half (49.4%) of Bradford adults are physically active, achieving 150 minutes of activity per week.
Amongst both sexes there is a trend of obesity prevalence increasing with age until 60 years, with a higher prevalence of morbidly obesity patients (BMI>40) amongst women (3.4%) than men (1.7%)2. This differs from the national picture where men more likely to be morbidly obese, 3% compared to 1% of women
It is estimated that 14% of 2-15 year olds are obese and 18% are overweight.If no action is taken, evidence suggests that by 2050, 25% of children in Bradford district will be obese and 30% overweight.
The prevalence of obesity is closely linked with socioeconomic deprivation. In Bradford, in 2013/14 12.8% of reception children in the most deprived quintile were obese, compared with 6.2% in the least deprived quintile.In Year 6, 27.4% of children in the most deprived quintile were obese, compared with 12.9% in the least deprived quintile.
Obesity prevalence is associated with ethnicity. The White British population has a lower prevalence of obesity than other ethnic groups. However, Black Minority Ethnic (BME) groups have higher levels of deprivation; therefore confounding effects have to be taken into consideration. National studies have shown that Pakistani boys and girls are up to 50% more likely to be overweight than the general population.

Volunteer

Our projects provide many opportunities for volunteering
Volunteering offer opportunities for you to make a difference to your own life and the lives of others
If you are interested in anything you see please call us on: 01274 666649 and ask for information on how you could volunteer for one of our projects
What benefits can I expect from volunteering?Our volunteers tell us it has: